Accessing/mounting Samba shares automatically

[Freeman]

I used this line from our wonderful Howto section to mount a samba share on my Vectorlinuxbox:

Code:

/usr/bin/smbmount //winmachine-1/shared /path/dir -o username=user_name

Now I wanted to automate this process and looked at the link provided in the Howto. This was a script especially created to mount sambadrives. But still, isn't it possible to paste this line in /etc/fstab? The only thing I'm missing in this command is the possibility to enter automatically my password...

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!
Freeman

[nightflier]

Here is how I do it:
I have a file ~/.smb/creds:

Code:

username=user
password=pass

The mount command is:

Code:

smbmount //computer/share /path/dir -o credentials=/home/user/.smb/creds

Problem with using fstab is that the network is not up by the time it is processed.
I call my mount command from KDE's Autostart folder.
You can also use /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but that one is run as root, which may cause some read-write issues.

Here is a guide on using ~/.bashrc: http://blog.unixlore.net/2006/05/accessing-windows-shares-from-gnulinux.html

[Freeman]

Thanks Nightflier, that did the trick!